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Thursday, October 15, 2009

I just love Maya Angelou. She is so insightful, and so wise. I find that people sometimes hold on to the past so hard that they can't seem to be able to enjoy the present, or look forward to the future. Everything that happens to us throughout our lives, good and bad, makes us who we are. Just wanted to share this quote from her, especially the words in red.

"I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,'that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.”

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I am lucky to live in the most beautiful part of the U.S., western North Carolina. I am an avid hiker, a sometimes golfer, and a very active quilter. I have 2 grown children, 3 grandsons, 2 great grandsons, and 3 great granddaughters. I am now a retired Registered Nurse who just can't find enough time in the day to do all that I want!!